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Elva Plain stone circle, Setmurthy
Elva Plain Stone Circle
locality:-   Elva Plain
civil parish:-   Setmurthy (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone circle
coordinates:-   NY17703172
1Km square:-   NY1731
10Km square:-   NY13
altitude:-   394 feet
altitude:-   120m

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 2) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Stone Circle"

hearsay:-  
15 stones left out of ?30, in a circle diameter 33.5m.

Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3
Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Anderson, W D: 1923:: TWCAAS: vol.23: pp.29-
Hodgson, K S: 1963:: TWCAAS: vol.63: pp.301-
Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States)

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